Thursday                                          RYDIN’
                                                                                                     HIGH
                                                  September 29, 2016
                                                  T: 582-7800 | F: 582-7044                        U.S. copying
                                                  www.arubatoday.com                               Europe to end
                                                                                                   losing run

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Strong
Rebuke

Congress Defies Obama, Overrides Veto of 9/11 Legislation 

President Barack Obama walks back to the Oval Office after returning via Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 28,
2016. In a resounding rebuke, Democrats joined with Republicans Wednesday to hand Obama the first veto override of his presidency, voting overwhelmingly to al-
low families of Sept. 11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia in U.S. courts for its alleged backing of the attackers.

                                                                                                                                                                                                           (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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Tropical Storm Matthew Lashes Islands of Eastern Caribbean 

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (AP) — Tropical Storm        stay indoors as the storm passed during the      tively few storms compared to the rest of the
Matthew lashed islands in the eastern Carib-      day.                                             region. A tropical storm watch was in effect
bean with heavy wind and rain Wednesday           The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami      for the islands of Aruba, Bonaire and Cura-
as it gained strength and headed west.            said Matthew had sustained winds of 60 mph       cao. Matthew was expected to become a
The effects of the storm were felt primarily in   with higher gusts. It said tropical storm-force  hurricane by Friday and then turn north to-
the southernmost islands of the Lesser Antilles,  winds extended out from the center for 205       ward Jamaica, Cuba and Haiti.
including Barbados, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent    miles.                                           Matthew was centered about 65 miles west
and the Grenadines. Authorities there closed      The storm was tracking across the southeast-     of St. Lucia at Press Time and was moving
airports and schools and urged people to          ern Caribbean Sea, an area that gets rela-       west at 18 mph.q